Historical Information Gatherers

Industries Served

Since 1997 HIG has been providing outstanding products for a variety of clients, big and not so big.  Whether you need one product or many, we can help. 



Architects

Land Use Planners

Archeologists

Natural Resource Professionals

Engineers

Private Property Owners

Government Agencies

Transportation Planners

These professionals and organizations typically order aerial photograph sets and historical maps from HIG for use in land use planning and design and assessment of past land conditions.



Environmental Professionals

Financial Institutions

Environmental & Real Estate Attorneys

Insurance Companies

These real estate transaction professionals typically use aerial photographs, city directories, fire insurance maps, topographic maps, atlases, GIS-Ready aerials, radius reports, lien/AUL searches, chains of title, and custom research services for use preparing Phase I Environmental Assessments and Environmental Transaction Screens, for loan underwriting and business risk assessments and for environmental or land use litigation.



Government

Libraries

HIG has worked with numerous libraries and government agencies to digitize collections of aerial photographs and historical maps. The collections were catalogued and GIS shape files were created for the collections to greatly enhance accessibility of the digital image files.

Historical documents are often a challenge to work with due to the size or shape of the documents and their sometimes poor or fragile condition. HIG has designed and built specialized scanning equipment especially for these types of collections that both protects the condition of the original document and results in high quality digital images.



Genealogists

Students

Historians and Historical Societies

Universities and Colleges

Researchers

These individuals and organizations typically order single aerials or aerial photograph sets, historical maps and city directories from HIG for use in their research of a town or neighborhood, a private home, a business or a public or commercial building.